Optimal Riemannian metric for a volumorphism and a mean ergodic theorem in complete global Alexandrov nonpositively curved spaces

DOI10.1090/CONM/584/11593MaRDI QIDQ5265429zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tony Liimatainen

Publication date 28 July 2015

Published in Analysis, Geometry and Quantum Field Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0368

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian metricSobolev classcomplete global Alexandrov nonpositive curvature space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Ergodic theory of linear operators (47A35) Fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58C30) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

Abstract: In this paper we give a natural condition for when a volumorphism on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ is actually an isometry with respect to some other, optimal, Riemannian metric $h$. We consider the natural action of volumorphisms on the space $M_m{u}^s$ of all Riemannian metrics of Sobolev class $H^s$, $s>n/2$, with a fixed volume form $mu$. An optimal Riemannian metric, for a given volumorphism, is a fixed point of this action in a certain complete metric space containing $M_m{u}^s$ as an isometrically embedded subset. We show that a fixed point exists if the orbit of the action is bounded. We also generalize a mean ergodic theorem and a fixed point theorem to the nonlinear setting of complete global Alexandrov nonpositive curvature spaces.

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